Turkey and Kazakhstan, two countries that have common historical and cultural ties, will put their mark on the Eurasian region in 2010, as Kazakhstan's one-year chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) formally began last month and Turkey will take over the term presidency of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) from Kazakhstan in June.

Turkey will take over the term presidency of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) from Kazakhstan during a CICA summit meeting to be held in Istanbul next summer.

Yet there's nothing remotely surprising about them: Republicans have repeatedly said similar things in the past, and some (see DeMint, Jim) have openly acted as if guaranteeing a one-term Obama presidency is their number-one animating goal for two years now.